cn coin 11023

Connected to Type

CN Type 5716 🔍

Mint

Abdera 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΧΕΚΡΑΤΗΣ

Design

Quadripartite linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Echekrates 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

Drachm (tetrobol) 🔍
Standard: Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

2.54 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Chandon de Briailles 339

Literature

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 220-221, nr. 318-322, pl. 17 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, persic standard) ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 24, nr. 1216 (drachm) ❐

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cn coin 11023, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11023 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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